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Jerry Garcia

We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
JERRY GARCIA

Everybody Licorice Like People Really
Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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Anything Get Guitar Less More Music Play Player Tend Think Virtuoso
There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
JERRY GARCIA

Being Bigger Enlarge Make More Part Value
The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
JERRY GARCIA

Around Block Else Eternity Outside Reality Something Talk Walk
What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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Consciousness Evil Get Good Life Manifestation Reject Try Whole
Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
JERRY GARCIA

Anything Else Insofar Language Music Musician Need Play Universal
You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
JERRY GARCIA

Best Consider Do Merely One Only
So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
JERRY GARCIA

City Come Every Government Idea Once Plumb Way
Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
JERRY GARCIA

Actually Experience Leg New Reality Somebody Specifically Step Through Walk Whole
Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
JERRY GARCIA

Blah Confuse Contradictory Crime Criminality Make Really Sense
The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
JERRY GARCIA

Come Dialect Differentiate Example Language Like Nothing Part Play Set
Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
JERRY GARCIA

Listen River Rock Sing Song Soul Sweet
The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
JERRY GARCIA

Anybody Certainty Everybody Fool Listen Long Music Useless
If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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Evil Lesser Pick Still Two
The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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Able Been Being Communication Far Matter Reality Share So Somebody Thing
And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
JERRY GARCIA

Concern Drug Far Like Problem Stuff

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